socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

Howard Lindzon , the San Diego angel investors who also heads up stock micro-messaging site StockTwits , has invested in another private company-- Discoverly.

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Yammer Southern California San Diego Venture Capital 138

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JUNE 2, 2011

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara , a venture capital investment group based in Santa Barbara, has invested $4M in funding for a developer of a web-based cloud training software firm, Mindflash , Mindflash said today. Mindflash, which is based in Palo Alto, offers a site which helps companies create online training courses.

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Santa Barbara Training Venture Capital Invest 145

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It connects companies with investors, allows investors to forward on referrals to other investors, and once an investment has been made, allows a company to post updates to the site. We have around 150 people on the site testing it out, and we're just preparing to send out more beta invites now. Who would find this most useful?

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Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

The firm said it MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations) software will include ability to control material usage at multiple inventory locations, better visibility and analysis across sites, tools to set up business rules, and more. The entire software will deploy on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud. READ MORE>>.

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Innocal Mission Ventures Venture Capital Software 124

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Companies use CapLinked to help manage the fundraising process in angel, venture capital, and other fundraising efforts. The site offers up deal rooms to share documents and due diligence information, as well as ways to provide updates to investors, connect with other investors, and more.

Software Review 140

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles 140

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

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Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan.

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Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. What is TrackStreet?

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

As a fourteen-year veteran of the venture industry I have often heard the phrase, “value added investors”, which is usually touted by certain VC’s as their biggest differentiating quality. Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

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AUGUST 1, 2012

CapLinked's site allows companies to manage due diligence documents, shareholder communications, finding investors, and more; the firm said it now has over 135,000 users using its site. Startup America is the effort launched last year to spur the creation of startups nationwide. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Yammer 153

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JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. As a result, I'm looking at a lot of software-as-a-service companies, and have run a number of SaaS companies.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurism, SaaS. . Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. .

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There have been a lot of entrepreneurs here in software and other industries, and interestingly enough there seem to be more self-funded, bootstrapped firms here, rather than those looking for venture capital to get off the group.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. For a full breakdown of each of our speakers’ backgrounds, visit our event info site ! Bitcoin and the closure of nefarious exchange site, Silk Road.

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Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

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JANUARY 14, 2016

San Diego-based MindTouch , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to help companies create self-service, customer support sites, has raised $12M in a Series A funding. The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE.

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Customer Custom Software Services 100

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MARCH 3, 2011

Jackson, said this week that it has rolled out several new features for the site. CapLinked said that it now allows users to collect recommendations from other people they've done business with, and display them on a user profile; has expanded its user profiles; and added features to help meet other users of the site.

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Manhattan Beach Sites Platform Help 150

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

raised by the firm earlier this month came from existing investors Gold Hill Capital, DFJ Frontier, DFJ-JAIC Venture Partners, Double M Capital, Daher Capital, Gil Elbaz, Clark Landry, and Walter Kortschak.

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Funding Social Media Activity Los Angeles 159

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

As a fourteen-year veteran of the venture industry I have often heard the phrase, “value added investors”, which is usually touted by certain VC’s as their biggest differentiating quality. Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. By definition, you read blogs.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It required content sites to develop totally new content. I’m now a VC. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. It was slow.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326